About this project:
My personal animation work always comes from the need to search for new and uncommon stories to be told as animated short films. I have been deeply convinced all my life that Western animation currently needs a strong shock in order to evolve towards new thematic and stylistic landscapes.
The story of this project started as a random search for new ideas during a long and boring train trip during the Easter holidays in 2009. At that time, the current never-ending, transgenerational financial and economic crisis that was beginning to undermine the way of life, ethical values and social rules in many countries was just starting. I always wondered where we were going as a society, and sadly, reality is going exactly the way I expected, dehumanizing people and ethics in favour of rampant financial speculation, war and outright political propaganda.
This short film’s premise is dystopian, inspired by the current status quo and highly influenced by classic dystopian stories such as “1984”, “Brave New World” and “V for Vendetta”, three visions that I strongly believe are being fully realized in different social contexts. That fulfilment depends on whether or not you are going in the direction the main social forces want you to go. It is both amusing and sad to see how many of the ideas I considered for this project have become reality or are now being proposed.
Because this project is a very personal, ambitious and complicated one, I will take all the time I need to complete it someday. At the very beginning, I realized that my screenwriting abilities were far behind what this story required, just as my drawing level and other artistic skills were. So I spent years working on my usual professional projects and investing a lot of my free time in improving my skills. Only in 2011 did I start to work at a very slow pace on this project, with no hurry at all, finishing the basic designs and a full animated storyboard in 2015.
Since then, this project has remained dormant because of its ambitious scope and my lack of personal resources to bring it to life. One of the great joys of my life would be to see this project completed one day with the quality it deserves.
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